Boston: Houghton Mifflin, (2006. reprint). Octavo, paperback, colour and black and white photographs and illustrations. WAS $25. The author takes up the chase of an extinct, or at least elusive, bird heading deep into the trackless Southern swamps and bayous to determine whether the Ivory-billed Woodpecker still lives. Reprint of... More

Mechanicsburg: Stackpole Books, 2008. Octavo, dustwrapper, map. WAS $55. Thirty years ago researchers discovered a previously unknown species of bird in the rain-soaked and remote mountains of Hawai'i. As they studied the bird - which sported a black mask and was called the Po'ouli - they soon learned that its... More

New York: Walker & Company, 2007. Octavo, paperback, colour photographs, other illustrations. WAS $25. A distinguished scientist reveals how we are losing the world's songbirds, why this predicts widespread environmental problems, and what we can do to save the birds and their habitats. Wood thrush, bobolinks, the Eastern kingbird--migratory songbirds... More